The Irish standard., 1887-07-02
CARLOW.

CARLOW.
The sheriff g sale advertised to take
place at Carlow courthouse, at the suit
of Mr.. Henry Wilson against Mr.. A. +.
Burne, Carrickslaney, was for some un-
explained reason abandoned, and did
not take place. 1t seems a senseless
proceeding on the part of the landlord
to incur such expense in harrassing a
tenant tor rackrent. The necessity OF
such measures would have been OBJ
waited had he made fair offer to Mr..
Burne. 1t is to be hoped that Mr.. Will
son now sees the wisdom of moderate
action.
CAVAN.
On Wednesday, June l, 300 police
proceeded on cars to Clan. to protect
Mr.. T6wnley, sub-sherif of CavaD, to
carry out some forty evictions on the
Annesley estate in Clan. A drive of
thirty miles had to be gone over in Or
der to avoid road that was feared to
be blocked. A proclamation was
posted up, signed by Sir Redvers
Butler, cautioning the people not to as
.semble, but the people would have as
sembled and have resisted the law were
it not that the agent, Mr.. Shaw, had
written to the tenants that he would
have the whole matter settled by sell
ing out the property. The land is OF
the most wretched quality. There
were twelve families evicted, but all
were readmitted as care-takers
CLARE.
The tenants on the Griffith property,
in the west Of this county, have scored
remarkable victory for the plan. The
tenants, who number about 104, were
hitherto punctual to meet their en-
gagements to the landlord but, owing
to the general depression of the times,
the majority of the tenants adopted the
plan of campaign. The money was
safely slowed away in the war chest.
and the tenants waited with perfect
composure for the result. Processes,
DEGREES, threats of the sheriff, were
looked on as idle wind which nobody
needs, until finally Mr.. Griffith, from
his retreat in Cheltenham, struck his
colors to the plan. The tenants de-
mand of 20 per cent. on rents and ar
rears, the landlord to pay all law costs,
was accepted by Mr.. Griffith, which
brought to a close very eventful strug-
gle without precedent in this part of
the country. On Monday, May 80, a
draft of several hundred pounds was
sent to Mr.. Griffith, which he acknow-
lodged on Wednesday, and dwelt par
ticularly on the fact that Father Garry
was the good means of restoring har-
mony between the tenants and himself,
and hoped it may long continue. In a
subsequent letter he renews his obliga-
tions to Father Garry, thus clearly
proving what manly and determined
tenantry can achieve when directed by
a calculating and prudent President
CORK.
at the close of the Ponsonby evic-
tions, Canon Keller said he felt COM
PEELED by sense of public duty to con-
demn in the strongest manner the ac-
tion of Messrs. O'Keeffe and Lynch,
solicitors, of Cork and Dublin, in refer
ence to this Ponsonby estate. He said
no Christian men should be guilty of
assisting combination of Orangemen
to imprison priests and depopulate a
whole side of q country. He adverted
to the well-known fact that the firm of
O'Keeffe and Lynch depend for large
share of their business on the priests
and religious communities in Cork, and
that, therefore, they should be the last
firm of solicitors to become priest
hunters at the beck of Captain Sars-
field. the Grand Master of the Cork
Orangemen. The day after Canon
Keller made the speech above referred
to, Canon Hegarty, Of Glanmire (him-
self the son Of an eyicted tenant), an
:nounced that he felt conscientio iously